Book Rankings i I scraped marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/category/books. I used gemini-2.5-flash because it's affordable and llama is too slow on my macbook. I had it first extract book titles from posts. I then had it compare two books at a time to see which review expressed a stronger positive sentiment. There are roughly 24.5 million such comparisons to do for an exhaustive set, but I already racked up a decent bill on gemini with 2 million comparisons so I stopped there. Thus the rankings are roughly accurate but not necessarily extremely precise. You shouldn't necessarily interpret book #5 as being better than book #6, but moreso books #1-10 being better than books #10-20.
Tyler Cowen's favorites from Marginal Revolution
Genre: Political Economy ×
Showing 215 books in Political Economy
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B
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A
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BT: -1.53
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BT: -1.57
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BT: -1.72
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BT: -1.89
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BT: -1.90
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414 comparisons
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BT: -2.04
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BT: -2.10
366 comparisons
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BT: -2.24
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346 comparisons
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367 comparisons
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BT: -2.48
353 comparisons
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BT: -2.51
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307 comparisons
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BT: -3.43
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BT: -3.43
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BT: -3.45
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BT: -3.46
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BT: -3.50
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BT: -3.58
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BT: -3.71
327 comparisons
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BT: -3.74
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BT: -3.90
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C
BT: -4.34
187 comparisons
C
BT: -4.58
279 comparisons
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BT: -4.83
187 comparisons
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BT: -4.86
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BT: -5.03
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BT: -5.10
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C
BT: -5.39
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BT: -6.86
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